Category: American History

The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq. (4 volume set) (The Tatler, No. 1-271)

By: Richard Steele, Joseph Addison, et al.

Price: $450.00

Publisher: London, Charles Lillie, John Morphew : 1710-11

Seller ID: 5122

Condition: Very Good

Full red morocco with gilt decoration and particulars to cover and spine; 5 raised bands. Marbled endpapers; gilt inner dentelles; rolled gilt edges. All edges gilt. Spans the Tatler publications from No. 1 Tuesday, April 12, 1709 to No. 271 from Saturday, Dec. 30, to Tuesday, Jan. 2, 1710. Light soiling to cover boards. Occasional spotting to all volumes throughout. Flyleaf immediately following vol. 3's index is torn, no text effected. Small loss to head of vol. 4 spine. Vol. 1: xvi, 413 pp., [5]; Vol. 2: xvi, 450 pp., [5]; Vol. 3: vii, 470 pp., [9]; Vol. 4: [viii], 468 pp., [6] 6 x 9 inche...
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Sand in Their Shoes (SIGNED by writer)

By: Sandy Thorpe, Martin W. Taplin

Price: $90.00

Publisher: Miami, : 2004

Seller ID: 7398

Condition: Very Good

Signed by Thorpe to verso of front wrap with inscription and dated 7/12/04. Pictorial paper wraps with text. Black and white photographs and illustrations throughout. No previous owners' names or other markings. Light wear to wraps (see image). 7.5 x 9 inches. Shipped through boxed USPS Priority insured mail. First Edition.
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The Register of the New Hampshire Society of the Colonial Dames of America Organized March 8, 1894, Incorporated May 8, 1895

By: The Society

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Manchester, The Society : 1910

Seller ID: 6999

Condition: Very Good

Patterned cloth over beveled boards with gilt text and emblem to front board as well as gilt particulars to spine. Textured endpapers. Very light marginal notes in pencil throughout, otherwise, no previous owners' names or other markings. Toning to spine and light sunning to boards, as well light wear (see image). Pages bright and clean. 6 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches. Shipped through boxed USPS Priority insured mail.
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Image for The White Service Record, A Portrayal of the Military Performance of White Trucks in the Service of the United States and the Allied Nations

The White Service Record, A Portrayal of the Military Performance of White Trucks in the Service of the United States and the Allied Nations

By: The White Company

Price: $350.00

Publisher: Cleveland, The White Company : 1919

Seller ID: 5711

Condition: Very Good

Full brown suede wraps in excellent state of preservation with gilt particulars to front wrap. The personal copy of Walter C. White (with his name to the cover), one of the 3 White Brothers who founded The White Company. Black and white photography and illustrations throughout. Watermark to rear cover. 55 pp. 9 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches. First Edition.
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Image for History of the Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs. Embellished with One Hundred and Twenty Portraits, from the Indian Gallery in the Department of War, At Washington In Two Volumes, Complete

History of the Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs. Embellished with One Hundred and Twenty Portraits, from the Indian Gallery in the Department of War, At Washington In Two Volumes, Complete

By: Thomas L. McKenney, James Hall

Price: $300.00

Publisher: Kent, Volair Limited : 1978

Seller ID: 6634

Condition: Fine

Full tan leather with gilt decoration to boards, as well as 5 raised bands and gilt particulars to spine. All edges gilt; purple moire endpapers; silk ribbons present. 120 full color portraits, one for each Native American, throughout. Contains three black and white maps at back of volume 2. Introduction by Dr. Herman J. Viola. Light wear to boards and small abrasions to base of page edges. Small amount of sunning to endpaper edges. No previous owners' names or other markings. Pages bright and clean. Please expect extra postage as this is a heavy set. Vol. 1: xxviii, 470 pp.; Vol. 2: vii, 534 ...
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Yankee Doodle

By: Thomas Nast

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, McLoughlin Brothers

Seller ID: 6091

Condition: Fair

A well read copy with covers detached and some tears to margins, transfer of color from plates, but still charming. Marjorie Conrad owner's mark to front cover. 16 unnumbered pgs, 9 1/4 x 10 3/4 inches.
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Brief - Volume 2, No.s 6, 10-15, 27-32, 34, 36, 37, 39

By: U.S. Army Air Forces in the Pacific Ocean Areas (AAFPOA) (Sgt. Clive Howard, Maj. Kent Pritchard, Jack M Young, ed.)

Price: $240.00

Publisher: San Francisco, Information and Education Division of AAFPOA : January- August 1945

Seller ID: 5514

Condition: Very Good

Set of 17 issues of Brief all from 1945. Each issue includes a full page photo of a pin-up girl on the back cover. Models include: Marguerite Chapman, Virginia de Luce, Lana Turner, Belita, Dorothy Morris, Ava Gardner and many others. In addition to being a news and information publication, Brief also strives to acquaint the men with the accomplishments of the personnel of AAFPOA. Creasing and occasional fold lines down middle, a few have some water staining to back wrap (see images). 18 pp. 9 x 12 inches. Complete list of issue dates: 9 Jan, 6 Feb, 13 Feb, 20 Feb, 27 Feb, 6 March, 13 March, 5...
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A Point to Remember. The History of Point Lookout, Michigan. Signed.

By: Val Korth in collaboration with Mardy Oeming, June Fleckenstein, and Barb Burdick.

Price: $115.00

Publisher: Korth Miami, Jostens Printing and Publishing Division : 1991

Seller ID: 5600

Condition: Very Good

Bright blue paper covered boards with pictorial endpapers. Scarce 1991 edition depicting the history of Point Lookout with personal recounts, the explanation of daily life, and black/white photographs. Foxing to preliminary and final pages. Inscribed by author. 8 x 10.75 in Pp. 162 First Edition.
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Gezigten in Amerika, Naar afbeeldingen op de plaats zelve geteekend Uit het Englelsch vertaald door Mr. C. J. Zweerts (2 delen compleet)

By: W. H. Bartlett, C. J. Zweerts (Translator)

Price: $400.00

Publisher: Amsterdam, G. J. A. Beijerinck : c. 1848

Seller ID: 5385

Condition: Very Good

Title in english: "Views in America, drawn to pictures on the site itself," (2 volumes complete). Dutch text throughout. Quarter green morocco over marbled boards with gilt particulars to spine. Marbled endpapers. Hors textes plates throughout text; sporadic image transfer to adjacent pages. Volume 1 contains approximately 65 engravings and the frontispiece; volume 2 contains approximately 50 engravings. Scenes depicted include: Niagara Falls, Capitol at Washington, View from Fort Putnam, Indian Falls - Near Cold-Spring, Catterskill Fall, Mount Tom and the Connecticut River. The United States ...
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The Life of Abraham Lincoln; from His Birth to His Inauguration as President

By: Ward H. Lamon

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Boston, James R. Osgood and Company : 1872

Seller ID: 7189

Condition: Very Good

Dark green textured cloth boards with debossed emblem to boards, and gilt particulars to spine. Black and white illustrations with tissue guards throughout. No previous owners' names or other markings. Wear to boards with some abrasions and fraying (see image). 7 x 9 3/4 inches. Shipped through boxed USPS Priority insured mail. First Edition.
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Lincoln and his Wife's Home Town

By: William H. Townsend

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Company : 1929

Seller ID: 7266

Red cloth over boards with gilt particulars to front board and spine. Dust jacket protected in mylar. Slightly deckled edges and uncut pages. Stated first edition to copyright page. Black and white photographs throughout. Previous owner's name to first free page--Jack D. Hasler--otherwise no other names or markings. Light wear to boards with bumping to head and tail of spine; chips and closed tears to dj with loss of dj at head of spine (see images). 6 1/4 x 9 inches. Shipped through boxed USPS Priority mail. Dust jacket present. First Edition.
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Lincoln the Litigant

By: William H. Townsend, Introduction by William E. Barton

Price: $90.00

Publisher: Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company; The Riverside Press Cambridge : 1925

Seller ID: 7278

Condition: Fine

Limited to 1050 copies. Blue paper wraps and label with text to spine. Paper dust jacket. Housed in black paper slipcase with a label with text to spine. Deckle edges. Sur blanc black and white plates throughout. No previous owners' names or other markings. Losses to dust jacket, primarily at spine; wear to slipcase with closed tears at edges (see images). 6 1/2 x 10 inches. Shipped through boxed USPS Priority mail. Dust jacket present. First Edition.
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Autographed note requesting his Commissary to issue the Ottawas beef, flour and whisky.

By: William Henry Harrison

Price: $2,800.00

Publisher: Greenville, : 19th July, 1795

Seller ID: 6558

Condition: Very Good

Autograph note by Harrison framed together with an etched portrait. Black wooden frame with gilt rule. Letter states: "Greenville 19th July 1795. The Commissary will issue for the Ottawas thirty seven pounds of beef + flour + sixty gills of whisky." The acidic ink in the word "the" prior to Ottawas has disintegrated the paper partially (see image). A little more than questionable inasmuch as Harrison (who would later become an opponent to whisk sales to the natives) was hoping for a treaty with the indigenous tribes in which they would surrender much of their land to the United States. Frame:...
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[1939, New-York World's Fair Machine-Made Lace Doily]

By: [New York World's Fair]

Price: $90.00

Publisher: New York, : 1939

Seller ID: 7179

Lace depicts the iconic Trylon and Perisphere. Light soiling primarily at top of lace. Roughly 8 x 8 inches. Shipped through boxed USPS Priority insured mail.
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Category: American History